A paper published in Angewandte Chemie, a journal of the German Chemical Society, demonstrated the production of medically relevant chemicals (including an intermediate form of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin) using modified solar concentrators, which capture light much like leaves do. A team led by Timothy Noël, an associate professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, combined these solar concentrators—which, adorably, can be made to look like actual leaves—with tiny pathways called microchannels. Ingredients sit in these channels, which look a bit like the veins on a leaf, and are spurred to react by energy from sunlight. To produce ascaridole, an anti-worm drug, the researchers used a lamp equipped with a bulb that simulated typical solar conditions, but they used natural light to make the anti-malarial precursor
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